2 weeks in review...Aug 27th, 2019

The last 2 weeks have been jam packed with no slowing down in sight. On Wednesday we had a birthday party for Jacob's 12 birthday. He had 7 boys over and it was absolute chaos. Jacob loved it! He came up with the whole party plan, came up with 8 minute to win it games and basically planned the whole party. The boys loved it, they had pizza and root beer and got to shoot nerf guns at each other, it was crazy!

Jacob had them pop a balloon to figure out which game would be next, he put the name of the game inside the balloon.

Ashlyn had a swim party with some friends, cute girls!

More party fun...

All the boys wanted to help light the candles!

Abby carries this little journal around everywhere and colors, writes and draws in it. It is the cutest!

Jacob with his birthday haul, he was pretty happy!

Since we had birthday cake the day before his birthday, we went out to Cold Stone for his birthday. Yum!

Abby all dressed up watching Ugly Dolls, which is a super cute movie!

Haley went night bowling with some friends...

Last week Rick went kayaking...

For my birthday on the 25th we went out to lunch at Garcia's, its becoming a birthday tradition! Jacob was in a really bad mood, so you'll see that in all of the pics. haha!

Rick gave me this stair stepper for my birthday and Abby drew me this cute picture! I heard from all of my siblings for my birthday and that is my favorite part! Birthdays are more about hearing from family than for presents for me:) Love my family!

Got some pictures of the girls repelling from Girls Camp...

Ashlyn had a modesty lesson and they designed dresses out of paper towels! Her dress is super cute!

We also celebrated my birthday out at the pool, with cake! My favorite!

It's been a challenge getting back into the swing of school again. Abby got strep throat and was out for two days, poor baby! Rick is loving work and busy planning his trip to the Philippines, someone on his team just enrolled the last president of Mexico into their English language learning system! Pretty cool!

Week in Review...August 18, 2019

Rick got to go kayaking on Saturday, he gets up super early and is home right around the time that I wake up!

 Abby is loving her K-1 experience. I go out to recess to check on her and she runs right by me, doesn't even take time to stop. I love it! Such a change from last year, she's making great friends and even shared in front of her class the other day. It makes me so happy to see her blossoming!

 Our sweet neighbor boy had to have brain surgery again on Friday to drain his tumor which had grown back to it's original size. Poor kiddo. The surgery went great and he got to go home the next day, so amazing!!

We are adjusting to our new school schedule, crossing guard is fun but exhausting. with these super hot temps above 110 it's been tough. I just keep telling myself that it won't always be this hot. Haley is enjoying her senior year, gets to go straight from Seminary to her friends house for lunch. Only seniors get to leave campus for lunchtime, so she's enjoying that. Ashlyn is adjusting to being an 8th grader, top dog on campus. She's staying busy with lots of honors classes. Jacob is making new friends at school and enjoys being the top dog on campus too. I'm loving being in a 4th grade classroom this year, the teacher is sweet and the kids are fun. It's going to be a great year! 

2 Weeks in Review....

 Haley and Abby got their haircut for school, this was Abbys first pro haircut! So cute!

 We helped celebrate Lilly's birthday on the 30th! She's such a sweet baby and I can't believe that it's been a whole year since she was born. We just love her, and she loved her cake!

 One day this week it was raining and cooler, so we went down to the park. The kids had fun on the neighbors scooter...

 2 of my sisters were on the other side of the map from us this week, Kim was in South Carolina for Katie's Army bootcamp graduation and Kelli is on a cruise!

Sarah made some of Mom's autumn soup and even though it's hotter than hades here I had a craving for it too. I tried making it in my instant pot and it was delicious and done in 20 minutes!

 It was a beautiful night last night in the '80's so we took advantage and went to the park...

The kids started school on Tuesday bright and early at 7:30! I'm back as a special ed aide and I've taken on the extra hours of afternoon crossing guard 3 times a week. So we are back to being busy!

Haley-SENIOR

 Abby-Kindergarten in a k-1 combined classroom.

 Ashlyn-8th Grade

 Jacob-6th grade

 Rick and I celebrated our 19th wedding Anniversary on the 5th of August and went out to eat at Red Robin. I'm so grateful for him in my life, he makes life fun and is a great husband and father.

 Rick was able to go kayaking on Saturday and saw an Egret.

 Abby's first day of school went really good, this is a great classroom for her. Her teacher reports everyday to me on how well she's doing. She is gaining her confidence, we are so happy!